- Hometown favourite wins first women’s skateboarding gold
- Brazil’s Rayssa Leal, 13, wins silver; Nakayama wins bronze
- Alexis Sablone of US takes fourth place as event makes debut
On the Olympic podium, three teenage girls 13, 13 and 16 with weighty gold, silver and bronze medals around their young necks, rewards for having landed tricks on their skateboards that most kids their age only get to see on Instagram.
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